Senator Rand Paul News

Apparently Rand Paul, heir to the ancient forces of Ron Paul, is familiar with this tale.

Henderson will be host to both of Kentucky's U.S. senators July 1 for the first time in a very long time - perhaps ever.

I'm getting really sick of seeing Republican Senator Rand Paul taking what should be the mainstream Democratic position on how America should deal with terrorism.

Thousands of tea party activists gathered Wednesday outside the Capitol in loud protest of the Internal Revenue Service, seeking to keep the beleaguered agency's scandal afloat nearly six weeks after the news first broke.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-MN, was among the speakers at an anti-IRS rally in Washington, DC, on Wednesday.

Congressional Republicans, who have been more receptive to immigration reform since last November, now appear increasingly unlikely to widely back the Senate immigration bill unless they can extract significant concessions from Democrats.

Critiques of democracy are as old as the excesses of the Athenian variety. Here's a classic: the unmediated masses are as capable of doing an injustice as any aristocracy or tyrant.

The New Republic 's profile of Sen. Rand Paul is well worth a look - and so is the remarkable cover photograph, which captures the Kentucky lawmaker crossing his fingers: The amazing photo set off a round of accusations that the image had been Photoshopped to make Paul look bad.

Sen. Rand Paul described NSA leaker Edward Snowden a "civil disobedient" and noted that others protesting the government like Martin Luther King Jr. had only faced short jail terms.

Republican Sen. Rand Paul called on President Obama to oust his embattled Director of National Intelligence on Tuesday, insisting that James Clapper told a "bald-faced lie" when he assured the Senate the administration was not collecting data on millions of Americans.

The head of the National Security Agency said U.S. surveillance programs had helped disrupt more than 50 possible attacks since September 11, 2001, as sympathetic members of Congress also defended the use of the top-secret spying operations.

American taxpayers are paying for a "war on Christianity" at home and abroad, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul said during a speech at a conservative conference Thursday.

A Gallup poll released Tuesday revealed that Gov. Chris Christie is actually more popular among Democrats than Republicans.

Sending Syria arms and aid and possibly more is a commitment that could haunt the U.S. for years to come, according to some Washington lawmakers.

Belatedly, Kentucky Republicans just had their annual Lincoln Day dinner. If the GOP is going to hold its gala in June they should consider calling it an Eisenhower Day dinner instead.

It's fascinating that two Latino men - both of whom are further to the right of where most Latinos stand on immigration - are at the epicenter of the current reform debate.

Immigrants protest in favor of comprehensive immigration reform while on the West side of Capitol Hill in Washington, April 10, 2013.

The former National Security Agency contractor who revealed the U.S. government's top-secret monitoring of Americans' phone and Internet data fought back against his critics on Monday, saying the government's "litany of lies" about the programs compelled him to act.

The article, a dense and thorough piece, discusses everything from the young senator's rise to GOP stardom to what his political future may hold.